This is actually who is behind ChatGPT. Just thousands and thousands of layers of rodents on their phones

Why is this the first I am hearing about rodents having thumbnails?? Well anyways if they have thumbs we can give them tiny phones and tiny social medias and maybe tiny sports betting apps. No better mousetrap has ever been devised @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Smh. Taking good middle class jobs from comically antisocial confident lieHUMANS

Ok how do I turn this into an op ed

I teach about how casinos and gambling apps drive compulsive use via providing the right rate of "close enough" payoffs to destroy peoples finances and lives for profit and it honestly feels like such childs play compared to AI companies running this playbook to destroy fact itself

Now that it is clear that AI benchmarks and training algorithms penalize the AI for not being confident, it's essential to understand the psychology of user decision making that explains why these companies would do something so comically antisocial as build planet-destroying confident liebots

Don't make me tap the sign Large language models are slot machines that pay out in confidence, not information If the information is bad (it often is) no one cares But if the confidence was bad no one would use it 🤔 Luckily for the compulsive use companies want to promote, it's always confident

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

Parents *shouldn't have to* lead the way in helping kids navigate AI risks and opportunities. Parents should be able to trust that developers and regulators are working to ensure that AI is safe and ethical, and that educators are trained to help kids navigate these tools responsibly. 1/

Guy who sells doo doo (squinting wisely and doing visionary voice): We believe within 10 years the world economy will be almost completely powered by doo doo

Graphic summary of the "tyranny of the wagon equation" for a Civil War army of 100,000 men + 20,000 cavalry & artillery horses + X wagon mules as a function of days' march from a base. The equine supply factor is total daily forage ÷ food (for humans). By day 4 or 5 it's out of control.

Ms Piggy is an important concept for children to be exposed to: an absolute ten who can do anything

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

In September 1919, Escher moved to Haarlem to study architecture. His landlady in Haarlem gifted Escher a white cat, who stayed his pet and companion during his student years. Escher lovingly portrayed his cat in several wood cuts. Etches of a white cat by M.C. Escher

To me this is science

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Good morning, my gen x partner just managed to work in "old people" (boomers) and "children" (millennials at a specific show twenty years ago) into a tight three minute rant about how "nobody knows how to watch live music correctly"

Ok time to listen to Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot and light prayer candles to manifest another 15 Knives Out movies into existence

If people would like to celebrate what is great about Minnesota today, at 6pm central they will live stream this years llama costume contest! www.waltonwebcasting.com/event/2025-m... This year....I am attending in person!! Llama costume pictures hopefully incoming

my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)

House Hunters International "look for a house without insisting you need an extra bedroom for your hypothetical guests" Challenge (impossible)

Some of you need to hear this

They laughed at me when I said all I wanted was to cover a cactus in boobs and have all the nipples be thorns. Whos laughing now www.logees.com/boobie-cactu...

It's come to my attention that it's once again Aloha Friday music.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKm...

Why am I, a person with no training, the person making the choice? Why does the trolley not have advanced notice of the workmen on the tracks? Why does the trolley not have a braking or diversion system sufficient to the task? Why is the track open to random pedestrians?

It is *pleasurable* to be certain about what we should do. Our brain enters a different state. We like it so much we spend time and money to keep doing that activity. Uncertainty, thinking, failing? they can't compete. A real problem is: at their core, AIs are slot machines where you win certainty

Frankly it's the sort of day we should all be on the north shore of Lake Superior and I'm tired of pretending it's not

Hi, mathematician here! This is not funny. Hypercubes only stereographically project themselves as tomatoes into three dimensions when in extreme distress.

consider your local baddie... their diet is garlic, red onion, cumin, asparagus

Store-brand Reisetomate tomato fruit. 😉 (Yes there's a specific tomato plant cultivar bred for its hypercube ass tomato fruits. Originally cuz you can eat some of a Reisetomate tomato without making a mess while saving the rest for later.)

great news

Weird tomatoes - hell, weird vegetables in general - are a specialty in my garden.

Look at this fucking tomato we ate for dinner. It's four dimensional. Hypercube ass tomato

I am once again asking

Now they are gen z jumping directly on top of me and meowing in my face. Why is gen z so poorly socialized

ICYMI if you haven’t seen a Pomeranian chasing a bear out of a house, you really need to m.youtube.com/watch?v=6V2o...

The acceleration of the anti-vax movement owes a lot to the erasure of long covid/ post-viral illness. Covid conscious folks have been screaming from the rooftop that trying to bury the pandemic means letting the anti-vax narrative on what's been causing increased illness go unchallenged.

Why do they even let straight people be on House Hunters

My student evaluations (ok one of them) said my slides were "not conducive to studying for exams or boards" and wow how do you explain these then

I have to wear a removable boot cast for a few weeks whenever I leave the house to try to eliminate some tenacious tendonitis It's both effective and sucks to hobble around in Now each morning only one question matters: is this day bootworthy

Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

I wonder when fretting governments will react proportionally to the fact that birth rates reflect millions of independent decisions that nevertheless coalesce into a kind of Lysistrata in response to income inequality and the destruction of the climate, and no lil thousand dollars is gonna fix that

Lowkey they are spoiling the broth

So so so so many phishing messages lately. I'm done with emails. If the university has anything to say to me it can say it to my face

The British are aiming to brute force the very limits of "burger", while north America is fearless in its Avant-gardism where everything is permitted. Neither is wrong, it is merely two different philosophies.

The man’s face seemed to disappear completely behind his hands, leaving some to wonder if it was truly lost and gone forever

Thank you, bluesky, for giving me the moment of zen I needed tonight

In 2016 I got in a fight online with a man in his 40s who was angry coz I called Batman v Superman “Batshit v Stupidman”.